From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
James Manning <jmm@computer.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: a plea for mincore()/madvise()
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:03:14 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14541.4418.281304.671792@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10003101932390.16717-100000@funky.monkey.org>
Hi,
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:39:03 -0500 (EST), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
said:
> i'll create a patch against 2.3.51-pre3 for madvise() and post it on the
> mm list before sunday. then we can argue about something we've both seen
> :)
> let me think some more about DONTNEED. at the face of it, i agree with
> your suggestion, but i may just exclude it from the patch until there is
> more discussion here.
For what it's worth, Linus's request --- that DONTNEED throws stuff
away without propagating dirty data --- is something that I've had big
database folk asking us for more than once.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-03-10 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-10 21:36 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-10 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-10 23:41 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-11 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-11 0:39 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-11 14:14 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-03-13 8:43 ` Richard Guenther
2000-03-13 16:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-03-13 17:20 ` Chuck Lever
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